WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ON ST: THE SCORPION'S LESSON!

The last few weeks here there have been many blogs posted and even more comments on fake gurus and the damage they have done to their duped disciples. What has fascinated me the most is how universal these principles apply to nearly everyone in the world, not just India and gurus, but what caught my attention even more is how much it applies to me personally. (No, I'm not ego-tripping, but I did just get duped by someone I considered a friend, big time!)

On the path of Sant Mat meditation, we are encouraged to introspect daily, to look into ourselves to find blemishes which prevent our growing closer to God, and (of course, wouldn't you know it!) the top of the line and my biggest daily failing is in the Ahimsa column of thought, word, and deed. Not so much deed. Slightly less word. But THOUGHT?! MERCY! MAY AS WELL TAKE A BLACK MAGIC MARKER AND JUST DRAW A LINE THROUGH IT EVERY MONTH! For years, I am stumped! So many bad people out there doing bad things to me or someone else, how could anyone not get mad and want revenge? SERIOUSLY, WHERE DO I KEEP GOING WRONG?!

What have I learned from ST? Where I keep going wrong: I only want the world to be a better place.

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.. (laughing!) Lately I see many on ST feeling and expressing similar feeling, often passionately, about different topics and people and events but it's all the same, outside of ourselves and, often, outside of our control. Then there are the comments from those who remind us to go within and focus on ourselves for that is the only place we actually can make changes which, by doing so, our vibrations, love, radiant smiles, will have a palpable influence in the world of each being we meet!

THEN IT STRUCK ME! (Not an epiphany, exactly, because some saintly seekers have repeatedly commented such-like on many different blog posts) but it struck me because I recognized that it actually applied to me, too! I took a scorpion (most recently) and put him in my pocket, knowing that scorpions' nature is to bite, but thinking this one would change, for I could see a Little Prince in his soul despite the snapping tail and hoped that our friendship would bring out the Little Prince inside and the snapping tail would fall off...EPIC FAIL! That tail turned around and bit the !@#$%^&!!! outta me! And I WAS SO SURPRISED! HOW COULD MY FRIEND DO THAT? WHY WOULD MY FRIEND DO THAT? I was astonished, full of disbelief, incomprehensible it was, what happened to my little prince?

THIS: Scorpion BIT and munched my Little Prince for lunch with chana jor garam, THEN BIT ME, TOO, BIT ME HARD, IN PLACES MOST VULNERABLE, TIME MOST VULNERABLE, WITH INTENT TO POISON: DID SO WITH ABSOLUTE ACCURACY!

WHY? BECAUSE IT IS THE NATURE OF A SCORPION TO SNAP AND BITE.

SO HOW DARE I FEEL VICTIMIZED, ANGRY, BETRAYED, FOR IF I WAS EGOISTIC ENOUGH TO THINK I COULD CHANGE THE NATURE GOD GAVE THIS LITTLE THING, I WAS ASSUMING THAT I HAD MORE CREATIVE POWER THAN GOD! (that's not good.)

NOW, LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AT THE PRESENT, I RECOGNIZE THE WISDOM that the only change we can make truly is within ourselves. And then all negative feelings I had towards this person dissolved as I recognized he was just being himself. And once he was out of my pocket it was over. And maybe, just maybe, it would be a great idea to stop putting biting things into my pocket, including angry, negative, depressed, vengeful, HappyDanceStealing-people! Be very, very, very discriminative, as we here seem to be quite sensitive and absorb the vibrations around us, whether or not we are aware of it, do we not?

Hazur Baba Sawan Singh Ji Maharaj once proclaimed: "

WANTED: REFORMERS! NOT OF OTHER, BUT OF THEMSELVES!"

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM BEING HERE AT ST AND MANY PRANAMS TO YOU BLOGGERS AND YOU WHO HAVE COMMENTED BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL BEEN MY TEACHERS AND BEEN A BLESSING TO HELP ME UNLOCK A DOOR THAT - UNTIL NOW - I COULD ONLY SIT BESIDE GOING:

"but it's not my fault, it's them! Waaaaaaaah."

NOW I AM LAUGHING AS I EMPTY MY POCKETS OF ALL THE "THEMS" AND ALREADY FEEL HAPPY-DANCING COMING ON, CUE THE MUSIC!